Author: George HendersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berwickshire (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Popular Rhymes, Sayings, and Proverbs of the County of Berwick
Author: George HendersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berwickshire (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Border Counties' Magazine
Author: Cursed Britain
Author: Thomas WatersPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300221401
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The definitive history of how witchcraft and black magic have survived, through the modern era and into the present day Cursed Britain unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes mounted, many Britons found themselves believing in things they had previously dismissed - dark supernatural forces. Historian Thomas Waters here explores the lives of cursed or bewitched people, along with the witches and witch-busters who helped and harmed them. Waters takes us on a fascinating journey from Scottish islands to the folklore-rich West Country, from the immense territories of the British Empire to metropolitan London. We learn why magic caters to deep-seated human needs but see how it can also be abused, and discover how witchcraft survives by evolving and changing. Along the way, we examine an array of remarkable beliefs and rituals, from traditional folk magic to diverse spiritualities originating in Africa and Asia. This is a tale of cynical quacks and sincere magical healers, depressed people and furious vigilantes, innocent victims and rogues who claimed to possess evil abilities. Their spellbinding stories raise important questions about the state's role in regulating radical spiritualities, the fragility of secularism and the true nature of magic.
Victorian Songhunters
Author: E. David GregoryPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810857030
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Victorian Songhunters is a history of popular song collecting and ballad editing from 1820 to 1883. It is a comprehensive telling of the Victorian vernacular song revival leading up to the Eduardian folksong festival, and includes information on the folksong revival in Scotland.
Scottish Characteristics
Author: Edwin Paxton HoodPublisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls 1883
ISBN:
Category : National characteristics, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author: Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: The Folk-lore Journal
Author: The Late Victorian Folksong Revival
Author: E. David GregoryPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810869888
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, left off, Gregory systematically explores what the Late Victorian folksong collectors discovered in the field and what they published for posterity, identifying differences between the songs noted from oral tradition and those published in print. In doing so, he determines the extent to which the collectors distorted what they found when publishing the results of their research in an era when some folksong texts were deemed unsuitable for "polite ears." The book provides a reliable overall survey of the birth of a movement, tracing the genesis and development of the first English folksong revival. It discusses the work of more than a dozen song-collectors, focusing in particular on three key figures: the pioneer folklorist in the English west country, Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould; Frank Kidson, who greatly increased the known corpus of Yorkshire song; and Lucy Broadwood, who collected mainly in the counties of Sussex and Surrey, and with Kidson and others, was instrumental in founding the Folk Song Society in the late 1890s. The book includes copious examples of the song tunes and texts collected, including transcriptions of nearly 300 traditional ballads, broadside ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, carols, shanties, and "national songs," demonstrating the abundance and high quality of the songs recovered by these early collectors.
A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published, Or are Known to Exist in Ms
Author: Walter William SkeatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description